LOL. Lefty candidate stumbles in French campaign

FRENCH presidential candidate Segolene Royal was embroiled in a damaging row on a visit to the Middle East at the weekend after appearing to condone a Hezbollah MP who denounced US “insanity” and compared Israel to the Nazis. Ms Royal, the first woman with a realistic chance of winning the French presidency, was struggling to extricate herself from the controversy sparked by a meeting in Beirut with a number of MPs, including Ali Ammar, of Hezbollah.